‘Dictator’ Lambert gets his way again

Norwich City 0 Aston Villa 1

“One’s a dictatorship, the other a democracy,” he explained. Political scientists take note: as far as this particular fixture goes, it’s currently Democrats 0 Dictators 3.

Lambert, of course, is the latter. The Scot wants things done his way or not at all and, as Stephen Ireland and others quickly found on his arrival as Aston Villa boss, there is a special part of the training ground where dissenters can spend time for extra debate; not quite on the Staffordshire border but well beyond the U9s’ pitches...